Pullman car



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UNITED STATES.

FREDERICK "WEIHE, 0F BYRON, CALIFORNIA.

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Application filed October 11, 1927. Serial No. 225,448.

hauling costs out of all proportion to the income derived, as is'well appreciated by those in the business.

The principal object of my invention therefore is to, provide a bed and compartment arrangement in a car of this character such that without increasing the length of the car and without materially increasing its weight the number of compartments in the car, and consequently the number of passengers which may be carried, is considerably increased over what is at present possible. At the same time each passenger has the same privacy as'is obtainable with the present compartment. arrangement. t

A further object of the invention is to provide a relatively simple and inexpensive structure and yet one which will be exceedingly efiective for the purpose for which it IS designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary side view of a sleeping car partly in section to'show my improved compartment and bed arrangement. is I f Fi 2 is a ra entar top an view 0 the c ar taken on i 'lie lin 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the main structural features and arrangement of the car 1 are the same as at'present constructed; a dressing room 2 for the male occupants being located at one end of the car and a similar room for the female occupants being located at the opposite end of the car, the compartments being located between different dressing rooms. Also as is usual in compartment cars a continuous passage 3 extends the full length of the car between the end vestibules, said passage being formed between one side of the car and a longitudinal partition 4 which extends from Y the floor to the roof. Between said partitions and the opposite side of the car the sleeping compartments are located.

- Extending from said partition to the op posite side wall of the car are transversely disposed lower beds 5, arranged in longitudinally spaced relation and even distances apart. Transverse partitions 6 arespaced equal distances between each pair of beds and extend between the longiudinal partition 4 and the opposite side of the car.

Located directly above the beds 5 at a height so as to be clear of the windows 7 are upper beds 8.parallel to and the same length as the beds 5. Each upper bed,

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however, is separated from'the correspond- I ing lower bed by a transverse partition structure 9, which extends from the roof down to the bottom of the upper bed along one side thereof; thence under said bed and down to the floor along the'oppos ite side of the lower bed, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. It. will therefore be seen that each bed is disposed in a com artment which is completely separated rom any other bed, alternate compartments 10 :having lower beds,

while the intermediate compartments 11 have upper beds.

The partition t'has a door 12 for each compartment, while the partitions 6 may if desired each have a door 13 so as to enable a number of adjacent compartments to be arranged en suite. The windows 7, which as customary are disposed in adjacent pairs, are arranged sothat each compartment has one window. The lower beds form seats for day travel, while the'compartm'ents having the u per beds therein would be provided wit a suitable form of folding or other type of chair to accommodate the occupants of the corresponding compartments in the day time.

While I have shown and described this arrangement as particularly intended for sleeping cars, it is obvious that such arrangement will be also useful in any place where space is limited'and privacy is desired; such as in passenger boats, air-ships cabins, as well as possibly the bunk houses such as are erected for the use of workers in orchards and the like, and in apartment houses. 7

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a structure as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the structure, still in practice such de- 10. as do not form a departure from the spirit viations from such detail may be resorted to of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 

